cover image A Hero in His Time

A Hero in His Time

Arthur A. Cohen. University of Chicago Press, $14 (280pp) ISBN 978-0-226-11252-7

Muscovite Yuri Maximovich, a middle-aged Jewish poet, is unexpectedly appointed Soviet representative to a music congress in New York, where he reads poems, has a love affair and is forced to provide a service for the KGB. PW praised this Cohen work, too, calling it ""an appealing story, skillfully told.'' (March)